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Oceans and
Coastal Areas
Emerging Issues
Major Assessments
AIMS
FAO
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 AQUACULTURE
IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM - 2001
NACA/FAO, 2001. Subasinghe, R.P., Bueno,
P., Phillips, M.J., Hough, C., McGladdery, S.E., & Arthur, J.E.
(Eds.) Technical Proceedings of the Conference on Aquaculture in
the Third Millennium, Bangkok, Thailand. 20-25 February 2000. NACA,
Bangkok and FAO, Rome. 471pp. ISBN: 974-7313-55-3.
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 WORLD
FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE ATLAS CD-ROM - 2001
FAO Fisheries Department, FAO, Rome,
2001
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THE
STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE (SOFIA) - 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 , 2004
FAO Fisheries Department, FAO,
Rome
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is the Fisheries Department's
premier advocacy document. It is published every two years with the purpose
of providing policy-makers, civil society and those who derive their livelihood
from the sector a comprehensive, objective and global view of capture fisheries
and aquaculture, including associated policy issues.
GESAMP
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 THE
REVISED GESAMP HAZARD EVALUATION PROCEDURE FOR CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES
CARRIED BY SHIP - 2002 
GESAMP (IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/
WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects
of Marine Environmental Protection)
IMO; 2002. London. Rep. Stud. GESAMP: No.64, 126 pp. Pub. no. 491/01, ISSN
1020-4873, ISBN 92-801-5131-2
This report provides an updated set of criteria for evaluating the hazards
of chemical substances that may enter the marine environment through operational
discharge, accidental spillage, or loss overboard from ships.
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A
SEA OF TROUBLES - 2001
PROTECTING
THE OCEANS FROM LAND-BASED ACTIVITIES - 2001
GESAMP (IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/
WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects
of Marine Environmental Protection)
UNEP/GRID-arendal; 2001. Rep. Stud. GESAMP: No.70, 15 jan, 35 pp. ISBN
82-7701-010-9
UNEP/GRID-arendal; 2001. Rep. Stud. GESAMP: No.71, 15 jan, 162 pp. ISBN
82-7701-011-7
  These
reports are a major contribution to our understanding of the
state of the marine environment and the impact of human activity.
GESAMP is an advisory body consisting of specialized experts
nominated by the Sponsoring Agencies. Its principal task is
to provide scientific advice concerning the prevention, reduction
and control of the degradation of the marine environment to
the Sponsoring Agencies.
- THE STATE OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
- 1990
GESAMP (IMO/FAO/UNESCO/WMO/WHO/IAEA/UN/UNEP
Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental
Protection)
UNEP; 1990. Nairobi. Reports and Studies: No. 115, 111 p., and Technical
Annexes RSRS: No. 114/1 and 114/2, 676 p
More Reports and Studies are available at GESAMP website: http://gesamp.imo.
org/publicat.htm
ICRAN
UN
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OCEANS
AND SEAS- REPORT TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL - 2001
E/CN.17/2001/PC/16. prepared by
the Subcommittee on Oceans and Coastal Areas of the Administrative
Committee on Coordination as task manager for chapter 17 of
Agenda 21, with contributions from international agencies and
organizations. March 2001.
UNEP/GIWA
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 Arctic
Greenland, East Greenland Shelf, West Greenland Shelf
UNEP, 2004.
GIWA Regional assessment 1b, 15, 16
Pedersen, S.A., Madsen, J. and M. Dyhr-Nielsen
ISSN 1651-940X
Major concerns are due to overexploitation of fish, seabirds and marine
mammals and toxic contamination of the marine resources due to long-range
transport from chemical emissions to water and air in industrial areas
in northern Asia, Europe and America. In the Northern part, severe impacts
on the arctic habitats can be expected, if global warming continues unabated.
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 Baltic
Sea
UNEP, 2005.
GIWA Regional assessment 17
Lääne, A., Kraav, E., and G. Titova
ISSN 1651-940X
The Baltic Sea region is one of the largest brackish water areas in the
world. It is a semi-enclosed sea, which together with other physical as
well as socio-economic characteristics makes it very sensitive to anthropogenic
pressures. Eutrophication remains the most pressing problem in the region,
as nitrogen and phosphorus inputs are still too high, despite considerable
efforts to reduce discharges. The issue of overexploitation of fish is
also considered as a severe problem, mainly due to the overutilisation
of fishing quotas, high exploitation rate and oversized fleet capacity.
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 Barents
Sea
UNEP, 2004.
GIWA Regional assessment 11
Matishov, G., Golubeva, N., Titova, G., Sydnes, A. and B. Voegele
ISSN 1651-940X
Overfishing of cod and haddock, nuclear waste storage, the invasion of
the Red King crab and a projected six-fold increase in oil and gas transportation
are some of the issues threatening the unique Barents Sea Arctic ecosystem.
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 Caspian
Sea
UNEP, 2003.
GIWA Regional assessment 23
Stolberg, F., Borysova, O., Mitrofanov, I., Barannik, V. and P. Eghtesadi
The Caspian Sea is the largest land-locked water body on earth, bordered
by five countries and influenced by three more in the catchment area. The
assessment of the current situation and historical trends identified that
Habitat and community modification exerts the greatest impact on the ecosystem
of the Caspian Sea.
UNEP
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 Cold-water
coral reefs, Out of sight – no longer out of mind
June 2004 by the UNEP World
Conservation Monitoring Centre as part of the Centre's
Biodiversity Series.
The document describes the various cold-water coral reef ecosystems and
associations together with their known and potential worldwide geographical
distribution. Case studies and observations from several locations illustrate
the state of these reefs and highlight their vulnerability to threats caused
by human activities, which have already destroyed or affected a large number
of cold water coral reefs.
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 World
Atlas of Seagrasses - 2003
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring
Centre, 2003
Edited by Edmund P. Green and Frederick T. Short
310 pages .ISBN 0-520-24047-2.
The Atlas is a collaboration of more than 50 authors from 25 nations. Fully
illustrated, the Atlas contains the first global and regional maps of seagrass
distribution and a wealth of information on key issues concerning this
'forgotten' ecosystem.
Available from University of California Press, Tel +1 510 642-4243, website: http://www.ucpress.edu
URL: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/seagrassatlas/.
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 From
Ocean to Aquarium: The Global Trade in Marine Ornamentals -
2003
UNEP World Conservation Monitoring
Centre, 2003
Citation: Wabnitz, C., Taylor, M., Green, E., Razak, T. 2003.
From Ocean to Aquarium. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK.
URL: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/resources/publications/UNEP_WCMC_bio_series/17.htm.
- WORLD
ATLAS OF CORAL REEFS - 2001
United Nations Environment Programme World
Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
Mark D. Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, and Edmund P. Green.
424 pages, ISBN 0-520-23255-0.
The most detailed assessment ever of the status and distribution of the world's
coral reefs prepared by the
Available from University of California Press, Tel +1 510 642-4243, website: http://www.ucpress.edu
WorldFish
Center
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REEF
BASE - 2002
Project by the WorldFish Center,
with support from the International Coral Reef Action Network
(ICRAN) and UNEP
ReefBase is an online information system on coral reefs, and was designed
to provide relevant data and information to reef managers and scientists,
as well as the general public.
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 REEFS
AT RISK: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the World's Coral
Reefs - 1998
by Dirk Bryant, Lauretta Burke,
John McManus and Mark Spaulding. 56 p.
WRI/ICLARM/WCMC/UNEP. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., 1998.
This publication is a map-based indicator of threats to the world's coral
reefs. This global analysis evaluated human pressure on coral reefs for
55,000 coral reef locations worldwide.
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The Ocean ... Our Future - 1998
Report of the Independent World Commission
on the Oceans, M. Soares (ed.).
Report to the UN General Assembly assessing the state of ocean management.
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- A Global International Waters
Assessment (GIWA) is now
in preparation, with a secretariat under UNEP hosted by the University
of Kalmar, Sweden, and with financial support from the Global Environment
Facility (GEF), UNEP and other donors. It is to develop a comprehensive
strategic framework for the identification of priorities for remedial
and mitigatory actions in international waters (both fresh and
marine)
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